A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed on Monday shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, and all eight crew members aboard were presumed to have been killed, the base said.

Aerial video footage of the crash scene, about 100 miles (161 km) north of Los Angeles, showed a charred, smoldering patch of the desert floor roughly the size of a football field as an emergency vehicle was seen ‌driving along the site’s perimeter. There were no large pieces of debris readily visible in the footage.

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>A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed on Monday shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, and all eight crew members aboard were presumed to have been killed, the base said.


>Aerial video footage of the crash scene, about 100 miles (161 km) north of Los Angeles, showed a charred, smoldering patch of the desert floor roughly the size of a football field as an emergency vehicle was seen ‌driving along the site’s perimeter. There were no large pieces of debris readily visible in the footage.